Equations in Gmail with the “TeX for Gmail” Chrome extension

Science via email One thing scientists and engineers have to do daily is discuss collaborative work via email exchanges. This often includes the need to share and discuss mathematical equations and to represent variables with subscripts and superscripts or special characters; something that is tricky when you are emailing in plain text. Source: WikiImages/Pixabay Of course it is possible to work around this problem! Email was invented by scientists, and for decades they have been communicating in this manner, using various conventions to convey the correct information using plaintext....

November 25, 2015 · Simon

Review of the Onyx Boox M96 eReader, one year on!

Introduction Last July (nearly a year ago) I bought a larger format eReader that is manufactured by a chinese company named Onyx under the branding “Onyx Boox”. The model, the M96, was an upgrade to their previous one, the M92, and I had been waiting patiently for a while, desperate to have a larger eReader for textbooks. The screen is 9.7 inches diagonally. This doesn’t sound much of an increase on a 6 inch screen, but consider that this gives 2....

April 17, 2015 · Simon

LaTeX overfull hbox errors (and how I fixed mine)

If you have ever written a journal article or thesis using LaTeX then you probably came across lots of errors and warnings in the process. Those warnings can usually be ignored as they don’t stop the document from compiling, and many of us who just want to cross the finishing line probably never investigate what was causing them. One such common warning is the Overfull or Underfull /hbox message. These usually occur through no fault of the author, but because LaTeX doesn’t know how to hy-ph-enate certain words....

February 17, 2014 · Simon